Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 25

They leapt with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him: ‘We will remember you and repay you for saving us!’

Who acts: fishes, We · What happens: leapt, put out, cry, remember, repay, save · To what, where: heads, king, you, us

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leapt	nsubj
2	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 delight	case
4	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leapt	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leapt	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 put	compound:prt
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leapt	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
17	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 remember	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 remember	aux
19	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 remember	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 repay	cc
22	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remember	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 repay	obj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 saving	mark
25	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 repay	advcl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 saving	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 leapt	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leapt	present	fishes = fish			with delight	tree rules
2	put out	infinitive	fishes = fish not said here	fishes's heads			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	cry speech: express	past			king		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	remember	future	We	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	repay	infinitive	We not said here		you		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	save	gerund	We not said here	us			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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